Clothes make the man or the Material Girl as MAONNA slapped with lawsuit accused of brand-name theft.
RadarOnline.com reports Madonna and her daughter Lourdes Leon named in suit by clothier LA Triumph is disputing the rights to use ‘Material Girl’ for their tres chic line for Macy’s modeled by Gossip Girl Taylor Momsen.
LA Triumph filed the lawsuit at California Central District Court on Thursday, claiming that it had been manufacturing clothes under their Material Girl brand since 1997.
A statement from their attorney read: "Our client and its predecessor have been continually selling similar clothes in similar retail outlets at similar price points under their Material Girl brand since at least 1997, and Madonna and her newfound company do not have the right to trade in the same space under this brand."
The clothing line’s lawyer claimed that LA Triumph ran ‘a risk of being subsumed by Madonna’s profile, obvious worldwide notoriety’.
